Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Join our Payments Lab team and help shape the future of retail banking through cutting-edge data engineering.

The Payments Lab team is at the heart of retail banking innovation, delivering new initiatives such as Request a Payment and enabling cash deposits at your local pay point store. As part of the Consumer Servicing & Engagement (CS&E) Platform, we are modernising our tech stack and building new capabilities using the latest technologies across Cloud and Mobile.

The Consumer Servicing & Engagement (CS&E) Platform delivers a unified digital servicing proposition for personal customers on the device of their choosing, giving the best digital customer experience to increase engagement and options for self-service.

We build deeper and more trusted relationships with our customers and support them to improve their financial lives by offering valuable, engaging and human-like digital banking experiences. We grow customer satisfaction and trust through simple, helpful and personalised experiences that they love. We provide and guide customers to complete and easy-to-use self-serve offerings where they can do (almost) everything they want within digital. We deepen valued customer relationships, helping them build financial resilience, by understanding what they need and when.

About this opportunity

Ready to make a significant impact in a world-class financial institution? As a Software Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group, leading technical development and delivery involves collaborating with passionate and ambitious professionals to successfully implement innovative solutions.

This is a great opportunity to work in a dynamic and inclusive environment where your contributions will directly impact millions of customers.

Day to day, you will:

• Work closely with business teams to identify and "prove" new use cases and the value of AI embedding the data engineering concepts.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-quality data products using clean, maintainable, and efficient solution designs aligned with standard methodologies.
• Work with other engineers and technical SMEs to identify, develop and implement new solutions that deliver customer and business value.
• Promote high quality Data engineering practices alongside maintaining an effective control environment, sharing knowledge with others and offering technical leadership or support as needed.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve solutions and present concrete plans to deliver these.
• Grow your capability by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities.
• Keep up-to-date with emerging developments in data, engineering and proactively share findings with the team.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need:

• Extensive data engineering experience and implementing data management systems.
• Strong data literacy, with hands-on analytics and development skills.
• Solid knowledge of data governance, architecture, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to extract and effectively communicate key points from complex code bases to support production builds.
• Experience with internal libraries such as GCP shared utilities, and building robust pipeline components using Dataflow, DBT jobs.
• Proficiency in Java, Kafka, GCP (GKE, Cloud tools), BigQuery, and cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with automation tools and observability frameworks.
• Clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, design patterns and core programming concepts.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle, from experimentation through to deployment of containerised models to a live environment, using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Sound understanding of and / or enthusiasm for retail banking and an appreciation of the opportunities that gen AI provides with good understanding of LLM, AI concepts.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Knowledge of data storytelling and quality engineering.
• Previous experience in the financial services sector.

About working for us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.